Flowek Music Contest

The Flowek Music Contest is a televised contest that which is by FBN. This determine who would be the country's representative for the Maia Song Contest and has been staged each edition of the contest.

Edition 1-5
The first edition of the Flowek Music Contest was held on June 21, 2016, with six artists competing for a spot to go through to the first edition of the Maia Song Contest. The success of the show led to one and a half million people watching the first edition with #FMC ranking number one on the twitter charts for that country on that day. The success though didn't lead to a good result with Emmelie de Forest getting her song Hunter & Prey into 18th place.

The success though of the first edition had the competition expand to ten entries with all new artists competing for the nation. In what was a close affair, it would be Jessica Mauboy who took out the second edition of the contest by only one point with Kaohportia not giving the amount of points required to see P!nk as the winner of the contest. This would mean that Mauboy song of Sea of Flags would be the entry for the second edition of the contest. But on July 26, Jessica Mauboy withdrew because of personal reasons which meant that Just Like Fire from P!nk would come in as a late replacement. In the semi-final, Flowek finished in second last place in the semi-final and didn't qualify through to the final.

After internally selecting for MSC 3, Flowek delegation thought to brought back the music contest for the fourth edition of the contest with a brand new logo to replace the outdated one and a new format. This format changed because for the first time it was two semi-finals instead of just the one grand final. For the first time it was a non-Flowekian who won the contest with Anouk taking the competition out by 2 points from runner up Joel Adams. The national final viewership though went down from the previous two editions and the rumors started to circulate that it might drop back to a grand final. Despite that issue, Anouk got the nation through to their third grand final where they would finish in equal 23rd place which had 11 points ahead of last place.

With the attempt of a non-English song being sent for MSC5 being a failure after the fourth edition was canceled, it would be brought back with a single final instead of the semi-final format with eight entries including a return of TP4Y. In a controversial decision, it was decided that Celeste Buckingham would be sent for the fifth edition after the regional voting changed to be involved from each state instead of a whole country that the previous two editions had. The song wouldn't qualify through with the nation finishing in 15th place in the second semi-final.

After yet another non-qualification to the grand final in MSC7, some decisions of FBN was tempted to withdraw all support from the Maia Song Contest. But on March 3, the contest was comfirmed with eight songs being entered but Eivør Pálsdóttir and her song I Tokuni had to be withdrawn from FMC as it was later revealed that she also entered the eighth edition of Björnskfestivalen. Not that this would dampen the national final with nine international juries voted in the NF which would see Brooke Fraser take out the title with a record score over second place Che'nelle. In the contest, Fraser would get Flowek's first GF apperance since edition 4 where she would finished in 23rd place overall.